The two I like best are The Easy Winners and Possum Rag.
If you like ragtime MIDIS, go to Warren Trachtman's website. It has
more than 20 of them by all different composers.
I'm learning to play the trumpet, my alltime favorite instrument both to play and listen to. I'm a big fan of Louis Armstrong.

If there's another war of that magnitude again, it will be catastrophic.

Liberal Democrats also have a bad habit of getting us embroiled in world wars. We were quite lucky the Russians didn't kick off against us when Clinton was bombing Belgrade. They were in a weaker position back then, but now, they're strong again, and their patience is wearing thin.

Bombing the Serbs was a stupid miscalculation. The Serbs and Russians
speak variants of the same language, have the same religion and almost identical cultures. The Austrian attack on Serbia in 1914 was the reason the Russians went to war. The Serbs and Moslems have been cutting each other's throats for years, and we can't fix everything and we shouldn't try.

Look at a map. Iraq is right on the Russians' front doorstep and very close to them. How do you think they feel about all our troops and warships so close to their borders? It scares the hell out of me.

Recessions are a part of the normal business cycle: prosperity-contraction-recession-recovery. Since we have been in recession for a year now, the recovery will occur during Obama's term and he'll get credit for it helping him to a second term even though he will have had relatively little to do with whether the economy grows or
contracts.

Recessions are a part of the normal business cycle: prosperity-contraction-recession-recovery. Since we have been in recession for a year now, the recovery will occur during Obama's term and he'll get credit for it helping him to a second term even though he will have had relatively little to do with whether the economy grows or
contracts.

Just how will this recovery take place? the lying Government just admitted we have been in recession since Dec. 2007 and, the reports I have been reading at bloombergs and elsewhere, paint a bleak forecast through 09 and into 2010. Turn out the lights, the parties over!!

Bombing the Serbs was a stupid miscalculation. The Serbs and Russians
speak variants of the same language, have the same religion and almost identical cultures. The Austrian attack on Serbia in 1914 was the reason the Russians went to war. The Serbs and Moslems have been cutting each other's throats for years, and we can't fix everything and we shouldn't try.

History has taken some regrettable paths. It never ceases to amaze me the number of times White European nations have sided with the Muslim Turks against White European Christians. If Whites had put more emphasis on the things that counted, the Muslim threat could have been eradicated centuries ago.

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Look at a map. Iraq is right on the Russians' front doorstep and very close to them. How do you think they feel about all our troops and warships so close to their borders? It scares the hell out of me.

True, but then again, Turkey is closer, and we've had troops there during and since the Cold War. However, they sent warships to Venezuela, and it looks like they're trying to reforge their ties with Cuba. Then, there was that joint military exercise they had with China, which was practicing a large amphibious landing. They also have the largest bomb in the world.

Honestly speaking, from the way it looks, it seems they're more afraid of us than we are of them. What if they're the sane ones, and our own government...is not?

Recessions are a part of the normal business cycle: prosperity-contraction-recession-recovery. Since we have been in recession for a year now, the recovery will occur during Obama's term and he'll get credit for it helping him to a second term even though he will have had relatively little to do with whether the economy grows or
contracts.

You're forgetting one thing, though: Past recoveries have been based on borrowed money with our presumed ability to be able to pay it back. That's not true anymore. The till has run dry, and our national credit is maxed out. This isn't "just another recession." This is more serious than that.

True, but then again, Turkey is closer, and we've had troops there during and since the Cold War. However, they sent warships to Venezuela, and it looks like they're trying to reforge their ties with Cuba. Then, there was that joint military exercise they had with China, which was practicing a large amphibious landing. They also have the largest bomb in the world.

Honestly speaking, from the way it looks, it seems they're more afraid of us than we are of them.

Afraid? I would say "paranoid". Ever since the Nazi invasion of WWII, the Russkies have adopted the attitude that they don't trust anybody and, in view of what happened(27 million of them dead)I can't blame them.
Were I working in the Kremlin, I'd feel the same way.

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Afraid? I would say "paranoid". Ever since the Nazi invasion of WWII, the Russkies have adopted the attitude that they don't trust anybody and, in view of what happened(27 million of them dead)I can't blame them.
Were I working in the Kremlin, I'd feel the same way.

You're forgetting one thing, though: Past recoveries have been based on borrowed money with our presumed ability to be able to pay it back. That's not true anymore. The till has run dry, and our national credit is maxed out. This isn't "just another recession." This is more serious than that.

The liberals live in a fantasy world, where money grows on trees and everyone is one with the universe. They changed this into a service, consumer economy and, that just won't work. The banksters who thought this up were not too bright.

You're forgetting one thing, though: Past recoveries have been based on borrowed money with our presumed ability to be able to pay it back. That's not true anymore. The till has run dry, and our national credit is maxed out. This isn't "just another recession." This is more serious than that.

Nah, that's what China and Japan are for. They are STILL buying our debt up at record rates. They know that the US public debt is only 37% of our GDP which is 27th in the world.